Monthly Archives: December 2012

Yes, it is the last creative color challenge for 2012! Wow – time flies when you’re playing with your crayons!

For December, Louise chose “festive red and green” as our color challenge. Her inspiration was her poinsettia plant, which was completely fitting for the Christmas season. In color theory, red and green are complements of each other – meaning they sit directly across from each other on the color wheel. I think festive is the key word though, they are such joyous natural colors. Plus, they are two of my favorites.

I made a bead woven bracelet using white as the base, with red and green as the pop of color. It is a stitch called “Venetian spiral”. This stitch makes a nice dimensional piece, but I have to admit there are other spiral stitches that I prefer to work with.

A view of the Venetian Spiral bracelet showing the clasp that I made using a fantastic red glass bead.

Venetian Spiral bracelet. I just love how the colors spiral around the bracelet.

I can hardly believe that a whole year of color challenges has passed. Happily, Louise has decided to continue with the creative color challenge in 2013. I’m very glad about that. If you enjoy color and would like to push yourself (a little) I recommend joining us with these fun challenges.

I hope you are enjoying whatever Christmas/Holiday tradition you follow! For us it includes a very low key get together with friends tonight, and then our longest time Ontario friend will be coming down tomorrow to spend Christmas with us! Both of these are long standing traditions, and I really like them. Our Christmas also… Continue Reading

Tomorrow is the big finale for the Culture Capital of Canada projects that took place in Niagara. Come be entertained and amazed! At least come and check out the displays of the all the events and projects that took place this past year! I will be there from 6 pm to 10 pm as part… Continue Reading

As you know, I’ve been spending time working with my enamels. Once you have the kiln turned on you need to make the most of it! Plus, there is down time while a piece that has been fired is cooling, so…. I’ve been using that time to make a series called “Everyday enamels”. These pieces… Continue Reading